The Faces of Angels

Author(s): Lucretia Grindle

Location(s): Florence

Genre(s): Thriller

Era(s): Modern

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The narrator is Mary Warren, an American. She has been the victim of a near fatal attack in the Boboli Gardens during which her husband was murdered. Two years later, the suspected murderer having been killed in a car crash, she returns to Florence to be with her lover. More murders occur in these crumbling alleyways of this beautiful city.

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Lead Review

‘A claustrophobic, atmospheric novel, which vividly evokes a city full of ghosts and painted angels.’ The Literary Review

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Author: tripfiction

3.75 I have often heard it said that Lucretia Grindle is to Florence what Donna Leon is to Venice, and therefore I have had my eye on reviewing one of her titles for some...